No Gender Gap in CEO Compensation

So, female CEOs are just as overpaid as male CEOs — not surprising, going back to one of the most overpaid CEOs in history, Linda Wachner at Warnaco. The bigger problem is that there is no evidence that female CEOs are better at company-wide pay equity than the men.

Our results reveal that there is no significant difference between male and female CEO compensation, so that there is no evidence for a gender pay gap at the CEO level in our data.